Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Brooklyn, NY, PowerHouse Cultural Entertainment, Incorporated, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean tight copy with light edge wear to corners. Black and white pictures throughout. Large format, unpaginated, about 275 pages with three short essays by Mr. Galella, Michael Musto and Anthony Haden Guest. The remainder of the book are full page plates with occasional collages in sepia depicting the garish, loud and tawdry excesses of the time wrapped in celebrity overkill of the likes of Steve Rubell, Calvin Klein, Halston, Liza Minnelli, Bianca Jagger, Grace Jones, and that guy with the blonde hair and glasses who's always taking pictures. Venues include Studio 54, Gynmnasium, the Met, The Roxy, Limelight, Plato's Retreat, Xenon, Trax, Cat Club.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black lettering, 342 pages, illustrated in b&w. Ist published in 1915. Previous owner's name inside front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black gilt-stamped cloth. Copyright page states 1924 with a K-Y code. No date on title page. A collection of satires written by poet Edna St. Vincent Millay under pseudonym as "Nancy Boyd." Millay offers a preface under her own name to "Boyd's" work, and writes, "I take pleasure in recommending to the public these excellent small satires, from the pen of one in whose work I have a never-failing interest and delight." Millay had written and published these dialogues and short-short yarns in a range of monthly magazines during the early twenties, the period of her greatest popularity and the period during which she wrote some of her most memorable and somber poetry. Gilt lettering is bright on cover but faded on spine. Spine cracked at half-title page, name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Sydney AU, Pacific Publications, 1st, 1968, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, black cloth covers, gilt titles on spine, b&w illustrations. Covers worn, tattered dust jacket. Australian George Wilfred Lambert Townsend (1896-1962) spent twenty-five years in New Guinea during which he battled head-hunters on the Sepik River, battled the Rabaul bureaucracy and finally the Japanese. There is some marking and highlighting to the text. A reading copy of a scarce title concerning Australia's administrative rule in New Guinea.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 418 pages. The first book to show how the Civil War transformed gender roles and attitudes toward sexuality among Americans. This unique volume brings together a wide spectrum of critical viewpoints by newly emerging scholars as well as distinguished authors in the field to show how gender became a prism through which the political tensions of antebellum America were filtered and focused. Through the course of the book, many fascinating subjects are explored, from new "manly" responsibilities both black and white men had thrust upon them as soldiers, to women's roles in the guerrilla fighting, to the wartime dialogue on interracial sex. In addition, an incisive introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson helps place these various subjects within an overall historical context. Copyright page states first edition, but no price on dj says Book Club. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Quill William Morrow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with paper wrappers. Black and white drawings by Callahan throughout. Tight copy.
hardcover. New York, Orchard Books, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 105 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY FARMER opposite title-page. This is the Newbery Medalist's first book. Black & white illustrations by Shelley Jackson.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine, 411 pages. Black & white Illustrations by J. Scott Williams. Two-color illustrarion on front cover. Edges worn. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering. Collection of short stories centered around an Irish doctor and his patients, mostly rural & poor.
Hardcover. Philadelphia/NY, J.B. Lippincott, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black with a color illustrated label on front cover. 342 pages, color frontis, endpapers and b&w drawings by Lofting. Copyright page states 11th impression. Name on half-title pages. Otherwise clean.
Softcover. Williamstown MA, Trustees of Williams College, 1st, 1979, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Cover features "Self Portrait," by Chuck Close. Features numerous black and white works from 39 artists. Complete with biographical and critical text. Slight wear and blemishes on cover. Interior is clean.
Hardcover. Wichita KS, Pr. Printed, 2nd Ed., n.d. (1930), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white frontispiece of author. Many black & white photo plates. 342 pages. No date. Nice tight copy. Green covers with bright cover decoration, spine lettering faded otherwise very good. One of the classic books on the policing, range-roving, & settlement of the Western plains.
Hardcover. Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, INSCRIBED BY THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOK, DR. J.N. ROMIG on the half-title page. Black & white photo plates, 299 pages. Dust jacket badly chipped, light water stain to top edge. Previous owner's book plate opposite half title page.
Hardcover. Boston, Phelps and Farnham, Revised Ed., 1825, Book: Good, Hardcover, worn leather covers, hinges cracked but holding. 652 pages including index plus publisher's ads. The American Edition printed from the English 21st Edition, While the covers are worn the interior pages are bright and free of foxing. An important and popular medical guide for the home in the early 19th century. The black spine label is mostly gone. Binding solid, no markings.
Softcover. New York, Associated American Artists, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9 X 12" with illustrated wrappers. Published quarterly by the Associated American Artists, Inc. and features art work and sketches by Freeman. Sketches are either in black and white or two-tone color. Unpaginated with approximately 48 pages. Light edgewear, spine paper starting to peel at top and bottom, tan stain (coffee or tea?) to bottom of front cover, not affecting inside. otherwise clean.
Softcover. New York, Associated American Artists, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, spiral bound with illustrated wrappers. Published quarterly by the Associated American Artists, Inc. and features art work and sketches by Freeman. This issue has sketches of the Columbus Circle area of the city. Sketches are either in black and white or two-tone color. Unpaginated with approximately 28 full page sketches, some fold-outs. Light edgewear, clean.
Softcover. New York, Associated American Artists, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, spiral bound with illustrated wrappers. Published quarterly by the Associated American Artists, Inc. and features art work and sketches by Freeman. This issue has sketches of Carl Sandburg among other local individuals. Sketches are either in black and white or two-tone color. Unpaginated with approximately 28 full page sketches. Light edgewear, clean.
Hardcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 191 pages. Don Heck remains one of the legendary names in comics, considered an "artist's artist," respected by peers, and beloved by fans as the co-creator of Marvel Comics characters Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Black Widow, and for his long stint on Marvel Comics' team book The Avengers. In Don Heck: A Work of Art, author John Coates has meticulously researched and chronicled information on Don's storied 40-year career, including his time at DC, Dell, Gold Key, and as "ghost" artist on Lee Falk's The Phantom newspaper strip. From personal recollections from Don's surviving family, long-time friends, and industry legends, to rare interviews with Heck himself (where he discusses his career, artistic technique, triumphs, frustrations, and love of drawing), this book is full of insight into - and first-hand anecdotes from - the early days of Marvel Comics. It also features an unbiased analysis of sales on Don's DC Comics titles, an extensive art gallery (including published, unpublished, and pencil artwork), a Foreword by Stan Lee, and an Afterword by Beau Smith. Clean copy.
NY/Philadelphia, Jr. Lit. Guild/Macrae-Smith Co., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 235 pages. Black & white illustrations by Robbie. Dust jacket with closed tear, small chunks gone top edge, spine edges. A post WW2 look at the exciting world of radio announcing told through a the eyes of aspiring young broadcaster.
NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 546 pages. Stanley Crouch's gloriously bold first novel provides an intimate and epic portrait of America that breaks all the rules in crossing the boundaries of race, sex, and class. Blonde Carla from South Dakota is a jazz singer who has been around the block. Almost suddenly, she finds herself fighting to hold on to Maxwell, a black tenor saxophonist from Texas. Their red-hot and sublimely tender five-year union is under siege. Those black people who oppose such relationships in the interest of romantic entitlement or group solidarity are pressuring Maxwell, and he is wavering. As Carla battles to save the deepest love of her life, her past plays out against the present, vividly bringing forth a startlingly fresh range of characters in scenes that are as accurately drawn as they are unpredictable and innovatively conceived. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Milano, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 62 pages. Text in Italian with an essay by Mark Haworth-Booth. Includes numerous black and white images by British photographer McCullin. A clean near fine copy in photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued.
Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 304 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists appropriation of the past for political purposes focuses on the role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern world in Mussolini"s Italy. With contributions by art historians.